Years active 1913—1955 Name Augusto Genina | ||
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Died September 18, 1957, Rome, Italy Parents Anna Tombini, Luigi Tombini Movies Beauty Prize, The Siege of the Alcazar, Heaven over the Marshes, White Squadron, Bengasi Similar People Fosco Giachetti, Ines Orsini, Mario Camerini, Carmen Boni, Alessandro De Stefani | ||
Cielo sulla palude 1949 italiano 1 11 avi
Augusto Genina (28 January 1892 – 18 September 1957) was an Italian film pioneer. He was a movie producer and director.
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Born in Rome, Genina was a drama critic and wrote comedies for the Il Mondo Magazine, under advise of Aldo de Benedetti switches to movies for the "Film d'Arte Italiana", that produces his first film "La moglie di sua eccellenza". In 1929 Genina moved to France to direct Louise Brooks in sonorized film Miss Europe. He studied sound techniques and worked in France and Germany in same but alternate languages film versions which were filmed simultaneously, before his return to Italy.
He won Venice Film Festival Mussolini's cup for Best Italian Film twice, in 1936 by Lo squadrone bianco and in 1940 by The Siege of the Alcazar, both Fascist propaganda films.
In 1953, he filmed Three Forbidden Stories, another version of the real tragic accident that Giuseppe De Santis made one year before in Rome 11 o'clock (Roma ore 11).